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No. 814,253. PATENTED MAR. 6, 1906. G. ULETT. HOLDER FOR. SAD IRONS. APPLICATION FILED APR. 10, 1905.

lfliillllll QLQLJQWM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ULETT, OF WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JASPER H. YETTEN, OF WALTHAM. MASSACHUSETTS.

HOLDER FOR SAD-IRONS.

Specification of LettersiPatent.

Patented March 6, 1906.

To all whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ULETT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Waltham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Sad-Iron Handles, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters'on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the .pro-

duction of a novel handle for a sad-iron, the

aim of the invention "being the production of a handle by which a most firm attachment may be made with the usual top part of the body of the sad-iron.

Figure 1 in side elevation shows my novel handle applied to a sad-iron, the top plate of the body being in section. Fig. 2 is a section below the line 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the handle-plate detached, the dotted lines thereon showing the shape of the sheet-metal plate before the lips and ears, to be referred to, have been turned into working position. Fig. 4 is a section of the same in the line as, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 00 Fig. 4.

The body A of the sad-iron and its top plate B, secured thereto by screws 0, are and may be as usual. The top of the sad-iron is represented as provided with a space a, and the top plate is cut away to leave a cross-bar b, that is embraced by the catch to be described. My improved device comprises a handle D, which ma be of any usual shape and material,pre erably of compressed asbestos. To

the ends of this handle I connect, as herein shown by screws cl, a handle-plate d, the latter being made, preferably, of sheet metal or steel stamped, out, or forged to shape,

said handle-plate, as herein represented and shown best in Figs. 3 to 5, having at its under side downturned lips (1 parallel with the side edges of the plate, and the center of the plate is cut out and shaped by a die to constitute two hooks d said hooks being upturned, as represented in Figs. 4 and 5, another portion of the plate being downturned, as represented at d, to coact with the cross-bar on the top plate of the body of the sad-iron.

Viewing Fig. 4 it willibe seen that the space 2 under each hook d is open at one end for the ready reception of the pivot 6, extended vertical with relation to said top plate. By

providing the catch itself with the projection to pass under the cross-bar it is possible to effect a more secure and firm enga ement of the holder with. the sad-iron, and if or any cause a catch should be broken another one may be readi y inserted in place, whereas if the projection g, forming part of the handleplate of the holder, should be broken the Whole plate has to be thrown away and a new one substituted therefor.

I have combined with the catch f a spring h,that acts normally to keep the hooked part of the catch pressed upwardly against the under side of the crossbar. In my invention the spring is so arranged and combined with the catch that the spring acts normally tocause the catch to rise under and keep the catch in engagement with the underside of the crossbar, and to move the catch the user of the sadiron must get behind the knob at the upper side of the same or must engage said knob between the pivotal point of the catch and the end of the handle nearest thereto, and, further, the spring serves to maintain the catch with its pivot, perferably formed as a part of the catch, in working position in the slots 2 of the ears.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character described, a handle, a catch-plate attached thereto, slotted retaining-ears thereon, an opening through said catch-plate between said retaining-ears, a catch pivotally mounted in the slots of said ears and adapted to swing within said opening and a spring, one endof said spring being attached to the upper side of the aforesaid catch-plate while the opposite end passes through the opening therein beneath the plate and presses against the hooked portion of the aforesaid catch, thereby acting both to retain the pivot ends of the catch within their retaining-slots and to hold the hooked portion of the catch in its normal or operative position.

2. In a device of the character described, a handpiece, a connected handle-plate having slotted ears, combined With a catch and a pivot-pin, said. pivot-pin entering the slots of said ears.

3. In a device of the character described, a handle, a catch-plate attached thereto, a catch pivotally mounted therein and aspring, said spring being attached at one end to the upper side of said catch-platc While the other end of said spring passes through an opening in said catch-plate and bears against the under side of the hooked portion of the aforesaid catch, thereby holding it in its normal or operative position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

' GEORGE ULETT.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, J. H. YETTEN. 

